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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 40 times deeper than Mariana Trench
The massive red storm extends far deeper than astronomers thought possible — and the ferocious winds powering it are deeper still.
Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers
It's tough to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating.
'Powerful auroras' on alien planets may be sending strange radio signals toward Earth
Astronomers say strange radio signals around old, inactive stars may be the shimmering auroras of four alien worlds.
Stinky 'mushball' hailstones on Uranus may explain an atmospheric anomaly there
A recent discovery of giant ammonia-rich hailstones, dubbed mushballs, on Jupiter might explain why Uranus and Neptune seem to have no ammonia in their atmospheres.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is not only shrinking. Its winds are also speeding up.
A decade of Jovian storm-chasing paid off for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera
Brazilian observer José Luis Pereira captured a bright flash on the solar system's largest planet on Sept. 13, memorializing the fiery death of a space rock high in the Jovian atmosphere.
Could a spaceship fly through a gas giant like Jupiter?
These planets are mostly made of gas, but a spaceship would have a rough time trying to get through a giant planet like Jupiter or Saturn.
Water vapor detected on huge Jupiter moon Ganymede for 1st time
In the wisp-thin sky of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected evidence of water vapor, a new study finds.
